Second Vatican Council - Metropolitan Joseph Slipy - Ukrainian Patriarchate

Abstract

As for me, the very objective history of relations between Ukraine and the Vatican, the attitude of the Apostolic Capital to the fate of the Ukrainian people has not yet been written. In those writings I read (even in this collection), it is presented mainly with diametrically opposite estimates. And this is because this story itself as a process is not one-dimensional, it is highly controversial, and its researchers often adhere to different appraisal approaches to its illumination. The fact is that Catholicism was not directly connected with the fate of Ukrainians, but mainly indirectly, through the Polish factor. The latter, as we know, was hostile to the Ukrainian ethnic group.